"I love all the stuff from the original Star Wars films, and the trilogy, so anything that went in there I would be excited about," Edwards said. "There's loads of rumors online, and actually, weirdly, working in Lucasfilm, you don't know. People ask you, 'Is this happening? Are they going to do this? Are they going to do that?'…and I don’t know.

"You’re just kept in your own little bubble of your own little film, and then if you do something that's going to affect another movie or something like the animated series or graphic novels, we'll talk about it. But I, as a fan looking on the internet, nothing to do with Lucasfilm, I kinda go, 'Whoo, Obi-Wan Kenobi film, that’d be cool'".

If Obi-Wan really does appear in Star Wars 8, that would only make audiences even more eager to explore the decades-long gap in his history between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Here's hoping Disney agrees!